Lugar: Sala de Reuniones del Departamento de Economía 10700 2026 (2ª planta del Edificio Los Madroños). 

Ponente:  Jaime Millán Quijano (Navarra Center for International Development and Centro de Estudios Manuel Ramirez)

Título: "Racial bias in employment services: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Colombia" (trabajo conjunto con Suzanne Duryea (IADB),  Judith Anne Morrison (IADB) y Yanira Oviedo (Econometría S.A.) ).

Abstract: 

«In this paper, we document de facto, implicit, and explicit racial biases within the public employment service in Colombia. By combining administrative data about job-seekers behavior with direct surveys to job counselors, including an Implicit Association Bias Test (IAT), we compute different types of racial bias. We find that while job counselors do not self-reported biased attitudes against afro-descendant individuals, the majority exhibit high levels of implicit bias, which also correlates strongly with observed lower referral rates of afro-descendants to job openings. In addition, we randomly provided information to job counselors about their own implicit bias and tested if this information changed their referral behavior.»